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MANUFACTURE OF HANDLED GLASSWARB. No. 319,026. Patented June 2, 1885.

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MANUFACTURE OF HANDLE!) GLASSWARE.

EPECEPICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,026, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed April 9, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL G. RIPLEY, of Pittsburg,in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennslyvania, haveinvented a new and use ful Improvement in the Manufacture of Haudled Glassware; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My improvement; relates particularly to the construction of the molds for making glass articles provided with lugs for the attachment of a handle or bail.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now describe it by reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the construction of the molds for making a shallow glass dish provided with lugs for the attachment of a pivoted handle, and in which Figure 1 is. a vertical section of the mold and plunger, showing the glass article in section in the same as it appears upon the completion of the descent ot'the plunger. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of the rim of a glass article, showing the bail-lug. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the mold on the line as a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 4is a plan view of aportion of the mold. Fig. 5 is a view of afooted article of glassware provided with my improved bail-lu g.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

Themold a is made in the usual way, with a cavity of proper form to produce the article desired,and is provided with a ring, I), which is placed on top of the same and which forms the upper edge of the article. The ring I) is provided with a suitable central opening through which the plunger 0 works. On the upper surface of the mold adjacent to the central molding-cavity, a, are two projections, a, which are placed opposite to each other, and in a corresponding position in the lower surface of the ring I) are two recesses, Z), the surface of which is of the pattern or configuration which is desired to be imparted to the surface of the bail-lug which is to be formed on the rim of the article. The inner sides of the projections a are flush with the edges of the cavity, and the inner sides of the recesses (No mod cl.)

. b are also flush with the line of the outer surface of the article, so that when the ring 11 is placed over the plunger 0 the adjacentsides of the lugs to and recesses b are in contact with each other, as shown at c in Fig. 1. The object of this construction is so that the glass when pressed up into the mold-cavity by the action of the plunger a shall not pass between the side adjacent to the surfaces of the lugs a and recesses b,and the result is that the baillugs which are formed in the recesses 11 have an open inner side.

The operation of my improved mold is as follows: The glass being placed in the cavity of the mold the descent of the plunger causes it to be pressed into shape, the glass flowing freely around the sides and outer ends of the lugs c in the recesses b forming the bail-lugs f on the surface of the flange f of the glass article f with an opening extending up from the under side of the flange or rim f and inward through the inner side of the bail-lug, as shown in Fig. 2. The article so made is then fitted to receive a bail, g, as shown in Fi 5.

l do not limit myself to the use of any particular form of bail or indeed to the forma tion of the bail-lug, as my invention is applicable to producing an opening in a glass or similar article the ends of which extend at an angle to each other, and my invention is applicable to the production of such lugs and openings in various articles of glassware, and for various purposes.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the plunger may be provided with projections which take the place of the inner sides, I)", of the cavities b, which projections shall work past and stand in contact with the inner sides of the lugs a. In this case the ring b would he provided withsuitable grooves for the passage of such projections on the plunger. It is also apparent that the position of the lugs a and recesses I) may be reversedthat is to say, that the lugs may be formed on the ring and the recesses in the edges of 5 What I claim as my invention, and desire and over the end of the lug, substantially as 15 to secure by Letters Patent, is and for the purposes described.

The combination of a mold with its ring, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set one of which contains a lug, the inner side of my hand this 7th day of April, A. D. 1885. 5 which is flush with the adjacent side of a cor- J responding cavity formed on the other, the IEL RIPLEY' lug being shorter and narrower than the \Vitnesses: cavity, and the cavity communicating with the WV. B. OORWIN, mold-cavity, so that the glass may flow around THOMAS B. KERR. 

